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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 10 Sep 2014, p. 4

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l -WAThR1JJO CHIONICI£°chrmday Se-temher 10.2010 ' i o o a I 1,. g Old hbrary could be a data mine ‘ . ‘ " f; 3’ . r . “ATP“ - ' - Bvlmrsl/icxsrm ers â€" academic institutions. high speed Internet in the 1 ‘5 T ' . WE . S Chrwlifk’ 5111}? community groups. govern~ building and connect it to i , ‘ “33‘ nients. entrepreneurs _, tn the city's private fibre optic f -- w Q CA naneffon to preserve the help turn open data collec- system, should council i K- ‘ historic character of the tions into meaningful prod- choose to go with the data . ‘ J building and make it ucts for use by individuals. mine plan. .‘ W ‘: appealing to potential businesses or the govern The library was built .ng 9X99 " investors, the City of Water- merit. (killed The Data Mine, thanks to a $10,000 donation . ‘2 ‘ opp] m ’1" 7;; loo will spend $234,000 on it would be a city-run open from Andrew Carnegie, an k "an” 8" I."‘tfl; ' , , the town's first public library. data initiative. American philanthropist 3, "I- ‘3 ' , "i'r 17' '4 . ’ ' l" The Carnegie Library, The estimated cost for Carnegie funded 111 :,' I, ' ' U l l i i N _. , completed in 1905 at 40 any future interior renova- libraries across Ontario in , , g :1 . . ‘ _ ' “ ’ ' ‘ ‘ . 1 . _‘ Albert St. could becotne the tions ranges from 51.1 mil- the early 1900's. Eight were > .~ 3 's K -. m a : g a ’ ‘ 7 f * , 7 , ,, new home of an open data lion and $1.7 million. and the built in Waterloo Region 5 V ‘ *, " 1‘ r ’ f5” " a. i .M. ‘3 _‘ incubator in Waterloo but a estimated cost for exterior between 1902 and 1912. f ‘ ‘ i i K’ m § ‘ 5 g, j a full environmental assess- remediation could be anoth- The library has been des» . , . , .« ,. " ‘ 3 a? ’ ,‘ . ment, conceptual drawings er $2.1 million. ignated as a heritage build l ‘ fl ( ; i a l i H‘ and detailed design work Since 1993, Habitat for ing and three of the 10 ‘ all ' L 51,, ' _ must be done before any Humanity has been the sole remaining libraries still operv \ a ‘ 7 , 7 adaptive reuse can occur. tenant of the building but ate as libraries today (New W M “.3 I; “The skill set that's when the lease expired at the. Hamburg, Hespeler and I. .V ‘7, required for the work is a bit end of May the charity Elmira). The Kitchener ‘ m ' ‘ m ‘ if different than new construe advised the city they would library is the only one to have a. I.” » ‘ tion,” said Garry Bezruki, the be downsizing and shifting a been demolished. . ’ ' " city's director ofstrategic ini~ significant portion of the (bun. Karen Scian urged - - tiatives. “The intent behind operation back to Toronto. staff and future councillors v 8 i 1‘“ . our initiative is to take that The building also was once to consider the future of the “L i WM . building and bring it back as used as a police station, building given the money ' ‘l 99 I ’ - much as possible to its his- The current annual oper- that maybespent on it. ‘ C u torical value and to take the atin costs of the building is “1 think the bi est chal l 8 as - . * w ' . work that's been done over approximately $30,000 and it lenge is making a decision on _ " time internally and take it Ls recommended that the city whether or not you want it to ”Wing’s. 8 mm . back to what it was originally. fund the ongoing operation be a revenue generator. a ' . . . moreofanopen concept." of the building but work charitable enterprise or Em ‘ ”Uln_ . One proposal is to re-pur» towards a full cost recovery some place in the middle." " ~ pose the library into an inno- model. she said. “That's a discussion “I. GRINDER SURFACE fl ' vative Open data ecu-system It would also cost an esti» that this councrl or the future ‘ » .. v " ‘ _ to bring together stakehold~ mated $175,500 to install council still has not had" “as, m. f»; ‘ §)\\i. 1 V, , .7 <9; ' * * '* 99 ‘2‘” 1““ )li Sb\ ‘3‘“, VJ / . .â€"_‘a¢ ‘ ”i k g A L .. ‘ . _ raw-w - J h 5' '3' CUIEIIUPIUII WINE" 10’x15’ . X a 3199 $395 » , , N! y r I ~ , - ‘ ._ 8’x10’ 15 x20 _‘ 5. , , . ' ’ I I , 9 x 12 20 x 30 5 Other Stats Available 32 a; “but”. I! a llama-gaunt“ .. a: ‘ u , ”‘IMmec-un‘p mums-gush.“ ..' mum manhunt-gangs... , fl; ' -~“h~“-â€"-â€".‘I~~-~huhn» 4:, .3: i ' 1

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